At 20 years old, he started at the Vevey School of Photography but ended up spending only a few months there. He went to San Francisco where he lived for 5 years.Vitra entrusted him with the Personnalités campaign consisting of photographing 130 personalities on seats designed by Charles Eames, Citterio, Jasper Morrison... Parallel to his commissioned work, continually prompted by his passion for photography in its purest form, Christian Coi